A Child Like Mine
My whole family, including my grandparents, came to Texas for Ella’s baby blessing.
My Grannie (she’s the second on the left) made the dress and bonnet I wore for my own blessing 25 years ago. Two years later, Merrick wore it and two years after that, Landen wore it too. On Sunday, Ella was the fourth baby girl to be dressed in it.
My aunt sent me an email over the weekend and shared with me a little poem that her grandmother, my Grannie’s mother, wrote some 65 years ago:
Babies are born from day to day,
Fresh from their Maker’s kiss.
Babies are born from day to day,
But never a child like this.
This is the song the mothers sing
To a melody half divine.
Babies are born from day to day,
But never a child like mine.
Jean Gordon Lauper 1945
She is sooo sweet. Congrats 🙂
What a lovely picture. My grandmother (ok, my aunt) recently sent me a huge box of dresses my grandmother made when my cousins and I were kids. One of them will fit the girl now and I plan to do a big photoshoot with her one day soon.
Well hello gorgeous extended family!!! What a blessing to have them there with you on such a special day!
The poem is beautiful, and I love these posts about Enna. I have always know that I want children, but… I don't really like babies. My mom has assured me for years that it's OK, I will like MY babies, but it's so nice hearing this all from your perspective.
Love that poem!!! She looks beautiful in that little dress and bonnet! Girls are so much fun. I don't know how to dress a boy…